Virtually every spiritual tradition teaches that your higher self is the presence of God within you. When you know this power within yourself, you no longer think in terms of anything that you must have or do with reference to external needs. In Christianity, this inner knowing is referred to in the commandment that says '... for behold, the kingdom of God is within you.' In Confucianism we are told, 'What the undeveloped man seeks is outside. What the advanced man seeks is within himself.'